in this little book Dr. Htiber has given us a model manual of microscopical tech 

 nique in the laboratory study of histology. The subject matter is divided into con- 

 venient chapters, commencing with the cell aud cell division (karyokinesis) in plant 

 ana animal life, and gradually developing, by easy stages, the most complex tissues 

 of the animal and vegetable organism. Between each lesson biank pages are inter- 

 leaved, to be used by the student tor di awing the objects seen by him with a pencil 

 or crayon a most excellent plan as nothing fixes the appearance and characteristics 

 of objects more firmly on the mind ihan drawing them, either free-hand or with a 

 cameia lucida (the former being prefeiable, as it educates the hand and eye). With 

 each subject is given the source and origin, the best methods fcr obtaining and pre- 

 paring it, and attention is called to the most noteworthy or characteristic points for 

 examination. 



The second part of the book is devoted to methods for laboratory work : soften 

 ing, hardening. dec<lcification, etc., of the matter in gross; embedding, sectioning, 

 staining and mounting, dc. The best stains, with methods of preparing the same, 

 and, in short, a general formulary for the various reagents, etc., concludes the work, 

 which is intended, as stated, as an aide, liteinoiie supplementary to a course of lec- 

 tures on histology 



We congratulate Dr. Huber on the skill with which he has developed the idea, 

 and the didactic methods which he has employed. Such a book cannot but prove a 

 great help to both student and teacher, and it should be more widely known St. 

 Louis Mtdical and Surgeon's Journal. 



JOHNSON. Elements of the La-w of Negotiable Contracts. By E. F. 

 Johnson, B.S., LL.M., Professor of Law in the Department of Law 

 of the University of Michigan. 8vo., 735 pages. Full law sheep 

 binding. $3.75. 



Several years of experience as an instructor has taught the author that the best 

 method of impressing a principle upon the mind ol the student is to show him a prac- 

 tical application of it. To remember abstract propositions, without knowin their 

 application, is indeed difficult for the average student. But when the pi imary prin- 

 ciple is once associated in his mind with particular facts illustrating its applica- 

 tion, it is more easily retained and more rapidly applied to analo ous cases. 



It is deemed advisable that the student in the law sh uld be required, during his 

 course, to master in connection with each geneial branch of the law, a few well-se- 

 lected cases which are illustiative of the philosophy of that subject. To sequireeach 

 student to do this in the larger law schools has been found to be impracticable, ow- 

 ing to a lack of a sufficient number ot copies of individual cases. The only solution 

 of this difficulty seems to be to place in the hands of each student a volume contain- 

 ing the desired cases. In the table of cases will be found many leading cases printed 

 in black type. From Preface. 



LEVI-FRANCOIS. A French, deader for beginners, with Notes and 

 Vocabulary. By Moritz Levi, Assistant Professor of French, Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, and Victor E. Francois, Instructor in French, Uni- 

 versity of Michigan. 12 mo. 261 pages. $1.00. 



This reader differs from its numerous predecessors in several respects. First, 

 being aware that students and teachers in the French as well as in the German de- 

 partrm nts of high schools and colleges are becoming tired of translating over and 

 over again the same old fairy tales, the editors have avoided them and selected s-ome 

 interesting and easy short stories. They have also suppressed th^ poetic selections 

 which are never translated in the class room. Finally, they have exercised the great- 

 est care in the gradation of the passages chosen and in the prepaiaiion of the vocab- 

 ulary, every French woid being followed not only by its primitive or ordinary mean- 

 irg, but also by the different English equivalents which the text requires. After 

 careful examination, we consider this reader as one of the best on the American 

 maiket. 



LYMAN-HALL-GODDARD. Algebra. By Elmer A. Lyman, A.B., 

 Edwin C. Goddard, Ph.B., and Arthur G. Hall, B.S., Instructor 

 in Mathematics, University of Michigan. Octavo. 75 pages. Cloth, 

 90 cents. 



